(Yangyang=Yonhap News) ▲ Yangyang National Forest Management Office, wins top prize in forest ecosystem restoration technology competition = The Yangyang National Forest Management Office announced on the 14th that it has received the top prize in the 20th National Forest Ecosystem Restoration Technology Competition, organized by the Korea Association for the Preservation of Mountainous Areas. This year's technology competition marked its 20th anniversary and held a 'champion of champions' event to select the best restoration site among past exemplary cases. The Yangyang National Forest Management Office received high praise once again for its efforts to restore an abandoned mountainous site, previously used as a military facility, to an ecologically sound state. The management office applied patented technologies such as 'environmentally friendly forest restoration methods' and 'ecological greening methods' to the forest genetic resources and Baekdu-daegan protected areas, ...